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

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

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.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.