What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

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.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.