The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to