It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

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.

The property of power is to protect.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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.