Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Genius is a long impatience.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

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.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.