Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

No strength within, no respect without.

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

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.

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.

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

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.