If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Patience is the art of hoping.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.