Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

The property of power is to protect.

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.

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.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.