Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.