If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.