The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol