Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

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.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Habit: the shackles of the free

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges