Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola