Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Genius is a long impatience.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

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.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.