If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

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

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.