Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

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

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

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

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

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

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.