Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.