Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

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