Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.