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?'

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.