The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

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.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.