Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

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.