A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

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

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.