It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.