Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

What is well done is done soon enough.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking 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.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.