You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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 man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.