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.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.