If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

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.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.