Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.