If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Nevercut what you can untie.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people