If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

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