When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

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.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

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.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.