A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.