Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Example is better than following it.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

He understands badly who listens badly.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.