Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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.

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

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.