To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

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

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

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.