Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

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.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

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

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.