Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

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.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

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 is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

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

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.