A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

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.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Luck never mad a mad man wise