Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Liberation is not deliverance.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

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

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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