Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

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

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

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.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.