Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Money is what things run into and people run out of