Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

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

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.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.