The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.