Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.