Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

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.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him