If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

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

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.