I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

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.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'