Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The property of power is to protect.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

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.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.