I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

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.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.