A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.