Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

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

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Our errors are steps on the way.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.