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

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it