It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Only the educated are free.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

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.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.