You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

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.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

You can't unscramble an egg.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.