A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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

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.

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

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.