The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.