A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.