A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

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.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.