Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

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.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.