Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

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.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.