Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

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.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

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