Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

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.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

The property of power is to protect.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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.