Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

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.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.