Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Thereare two sides to every question.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.