You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.