Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

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.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.