Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

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.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

A bad workman never gets a good tool.