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.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Stability is not immobility

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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

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