The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

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

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.