We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

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.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

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.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.