Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.