If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

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.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking 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.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.