The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

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

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.