Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

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.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

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.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.