You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it