We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Genius is a long impatience.

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

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.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.