Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Stability is not immobility

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

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.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.