If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

When you're ready to do something about a problem, almost anything can help. When you're not ready, no amount of workshops, counselling or programs will effect a change. The rule is: "When a student is ready, the teacher appears."

He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties.

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.

Crises and deadlocks, when they occur, have at least this advantage: that they force us to think.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.