A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

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

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.