You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

The property of power is to protect.

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

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

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

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di