Every advantage has its tax

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

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.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

The property of power is to protect.