“Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.”

“Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.”

“If you are prepared,” he told his players, “you will be confident, and will do the job.”

“One never knows, do one?”

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master;he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”

“There is no need to hold on to what's obsolete: One never loses what one tosses away deliberately.”

“I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.”