Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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 is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.