It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

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.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Prayer changes things by changing people.