Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

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

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.

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.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Faith is continuation of reason.