Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

... 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

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

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.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.