No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Pain is the outcome of sin.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.