Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

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

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

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,

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.