Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.