Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

The property of power is to protect.

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

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Example is better than following it.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.