Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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.

The greatest prayer is patience.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.