Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

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

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

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.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.