wisdom well

• a genius always thinks things can be done better
• you may have to forgo wealth and power if you want to attain happiness and freedom
• behind seeming permanence lies constant flux
• if you do not fear death, then you do not fear anything
• if you do not seize an opportunity, someone else will
• humor can hurt just as easily as make someone laugh
• laugh with, but never laugh at
• take time to turn yourself around
• cope calmly to achieve inner serenity
• put yourself in others' shoes and take the focus off yourself
• you can never go wrong keeping your mouth shut
• remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language
• the most powerful force on earth is love
• eat to please thyself, but dress to please others (Benjamin Franklin)