Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

To teach isto learn twice.

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.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

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.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.