Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

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

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges