Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

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.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

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.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.