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.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

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.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.