In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.