"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that every step forward is a victory over stagnation."

"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."

"True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."

"I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big."