If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.