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.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

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.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.