Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

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.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal