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.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

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.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

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.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.