Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

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

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

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.