Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.