If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

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.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.