I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho