The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.