An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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