Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.