You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...