Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

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

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.