The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Opportunists take now for an answer.