A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

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.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

God has created the world in play.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

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

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.