I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

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.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

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.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.