Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.