Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

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.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.