Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist