Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
I can, therefore I am.
Never complain and never explain.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.