The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.