A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

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

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

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.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.