Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

He understands badly who listens badly.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Liberation is not deliverance.

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

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

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.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

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.