Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

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.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.