Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.