One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

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

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.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.