Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

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.

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.