Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

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.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Allthings at first appear difficult.