Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.