Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

The property of power is to protect.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.