Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

God made time, but man made haste.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money