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

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

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.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.