A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.