We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.