First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.