Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.