It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

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.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

He whoangers you, conquers you.