A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.