Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.