All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

God made time, but man made haste.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.