A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

A half truth is a whole lie.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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.