I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

A language is like living skin itself.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

God has created the world in play.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

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.