The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Neversay more than is necessary.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.