When everybody else thinks it's the end, we have to begin.
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.
To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.