Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.