By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

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?

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.