If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

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.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.