A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

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.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.