When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

The present is never a happy state to any being

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.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

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

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.