If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

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

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

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.