Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

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.