We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.