Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.