To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.