Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

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

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

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.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.