Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

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

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.