You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Stability is not immobility

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to