There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

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.