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

Liberation is not deliverance.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

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

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

God has created the world in play.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and