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.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.