Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

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

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

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.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.