When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.