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

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

No strength within, no respect without.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.