If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom