To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.