Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.