Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.