Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

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.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.