Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.