The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

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.

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

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Nothing is a permanent except change.