All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

... 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

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.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left