Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.