If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

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.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Fools rush in where fools have been before.