If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

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.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.