Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

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

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

The first duty of love is to listen.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

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.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

God has created the world in play.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.