Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

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

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

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.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.