Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.