Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

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.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.