Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

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

A language is like living skin itself.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.