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

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

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.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much