A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.