A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.