Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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...

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.