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

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Example is better than following it.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.