The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

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

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.