As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

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.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.