If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.