Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

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

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Our distrust is very expensive.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.