Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.