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.

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.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

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

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

God made time, but man made haste.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.