Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.