Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.