A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

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.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.