He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

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.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.