Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.

There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.

Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.

One could draw up all different kinds of adversity depending on what your weakness is.

Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to atack

Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that people operated by, but history is full of many, many people who have gotten power by very unethical means, and people who were very ethical, who get no power, people who have the most brilliant, lovely, wonderful, nice intentions and bring about horrible things in the world because they don't know how to play the power game.