The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.