Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.