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

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

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?'

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to