It is a good reader that makes a good book.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

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.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

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.