The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

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.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

The present is never a happy state to any being

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.