Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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!

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

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.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.