A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.