If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

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

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out