The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

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.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.