When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

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

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.