An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares