Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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 have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.