Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

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

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

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

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

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

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.