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

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

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

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.