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.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

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