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

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.