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.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

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

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'