Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

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.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.