Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Toevery answer you can find a new question.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

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.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.