There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

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

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

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.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.