Much learning does not teach understanding.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

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

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

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.