Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

A half truth is a whole lie.

God has created the world in play.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

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.