Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

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.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour