Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.