Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.