Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

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.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

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.