Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.