Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.