Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

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.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.