Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

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

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.