Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

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.

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

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.