Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

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.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

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.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.