Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.