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

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

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

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

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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

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.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.