Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The property of power is to protect.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Those who trust us educate us.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

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.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves