People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.