Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

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

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem