Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

... 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