Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

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

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.