The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.