Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

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

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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 are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.