A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

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