Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.