None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

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.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.