Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

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.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

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

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

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

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.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.