As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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.

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.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola