You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

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.

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.