Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

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 greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.