It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

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

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 average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.