Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

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

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

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.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.