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

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.