Sweet is pleasure after pain

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

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.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !