Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?