A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

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.