Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

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

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

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

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.