Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Power comes from sincere service

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

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

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

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.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.