Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?