Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

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

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.