A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

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.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.