Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

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.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The property of power is to protect.

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

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.