Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

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

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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.