It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

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

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

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

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.