It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

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.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes