Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

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

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost 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.

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

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to