You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

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.

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.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,