I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

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.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.