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.

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

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

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

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.