God made time, but man made haste.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

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.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

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.