The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

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.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

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.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.