Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

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.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.