Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

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

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man