Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Compromise.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.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist