A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.