Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

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

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.