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

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

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.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

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

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di