The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

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.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

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.

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

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal