We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

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.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.