Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

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.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.