Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

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

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

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 present is never a happy state to any being

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Step after step the ladder is ascended