Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

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

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.