The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

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

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall 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.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.