It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.