Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

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.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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