If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

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.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.