Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Example is better than following it.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

Habit: the shackles of the free

To beprepared is half the victory.