He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.