A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

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.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.