Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

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.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.