Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

No strength within, no respect without.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.