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

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

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

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

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.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.