Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

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.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Well done is better than well said.