We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

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.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.