Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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