Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.