Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Neversay more than is necessary.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

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

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

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.