Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Stability is not immobility

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

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

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.