One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

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

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

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 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.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.