Stability is not immobility

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

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

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

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.