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

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

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.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

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

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.