True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

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

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

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

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.