Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

No strength within, no respect without.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.