The greatest prayer is patience.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

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

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him