Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

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

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

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.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.