If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

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

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

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.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.