All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.