A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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.