Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

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

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.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.