Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.