Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

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