Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Thereare two sides to every question.

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