Takecare, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you willforever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make adifference, if you choose to do so.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

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.

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

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.