Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

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

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

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,