It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

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.