Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

... 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

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

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

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.