Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

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.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.