Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Neversay more than is necessary.

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.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.