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.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.