The greatest prayer is patience.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

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.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.