If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

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.

Ifyou are 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.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

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.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.