Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

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

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

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.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.