Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.