Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

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

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.