It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.