Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

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.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.