I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

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.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

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.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

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.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.