It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.