Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.