Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

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

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

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.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

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.