If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him