Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

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.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.