Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

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.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

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.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Sweet is pleasure after pain