Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

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

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.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.