Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

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 more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.