Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

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.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.