Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

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.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

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.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.