A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

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!

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.