Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Those who trust us educate us.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

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.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.