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.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.