Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.