I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

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.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

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.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.