A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him