Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

The property of power is to protect.

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

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.