Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.