The wise man reads

The wise man reads
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
  

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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di
Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.
Prayer changes things by changing people.
To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.
Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.
Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.
The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.