A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

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?'

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

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.