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.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

The property of power is to protect.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

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.

The first duty of love is to listen.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di