I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

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 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.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.