If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

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.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.