To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

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 the ultimate weapon of power.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.