If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

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.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

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

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

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