It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.