It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

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.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.