Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

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

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Toevery answer you can find a new question.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

... 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