Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.