You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.