Our patience will achieve more than our force.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.