Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.