Skillin the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He canaccomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Example is better than following it.

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.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.