If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

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.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.