Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

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.