Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

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.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Ittakes time to save time.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.