Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

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.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

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

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