If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Ability is poor men's wealth

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

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

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

There is no knowledge that is not 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.