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 smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.