Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.