The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.