The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.