When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

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.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.