If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

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.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

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

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.