Life only demands from you the strength you posses

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought