If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.