Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

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.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.