People loan their trust, they don't give it.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

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.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.