If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

~~~~~~~~~~~Rudyard Kipling~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I was inspired by this poem that Professor Diraja Ungku Abdul Aziz Ungku Abdul Hamid read to the attendees of his Seminar as a closing.

Standing tall, and filled with wisdom, the 82-year-old Professor Ungku Aziz was still able to draw the crowd's attention, and Malaysian Academicians, Politicians and Economists, even right down to those who are still at school level would look at him with open admiration.

As a prominent Malaysian Academician and Economist, he is soft-spoken, open-minded and humble. Given his royal background and all the monies in the world, he shares everything openly and honestly about things in life, in learning, his mistakes, how he learns from making things work - extremely skilled with giving analogies and drawing comparisons to everything that he presents.

Even school-going children and senior citizens could digest all that he says, and completely feel that learning is a neverending process. Malaysia needs more people like him to inspire it's future leaders.