Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

Ability is poor men's wealth

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

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.

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

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.