Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.