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

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

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.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare