To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring 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.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

A language is like living skin itself.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.