Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

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 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.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.