Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony