The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Stability is not immobility

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

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

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