DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

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

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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.