To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.