Our power is in our ability to decide.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.