To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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 seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

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

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.