Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

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.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous