Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

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

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.