Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

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

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.