Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

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

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.