Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

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.