Prayer changes things by changing people.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.