We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.