True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.