Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

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

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Stability is not immobility

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di