A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

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 is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.