To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.