Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

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

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

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.