Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.