To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...