We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

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 isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.