Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Takecare, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you willforever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make adifference, if you choose to do so.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

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.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.