Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.