Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.