I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

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.

Well done is better than well said.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Money is what things run into and people run out of