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.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

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.

Our distrust is very expensive.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.