The greatest prayer is patience.

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.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.