Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The property of power is to protect.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

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 man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.