The greatest prayer is patience.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

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