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

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.