Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

He understands badly who listens badly.