Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

As long as there is life there is danger.

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.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

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.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.