Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.