The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

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

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

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.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.