Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

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.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

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