“Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it ...”

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”

“Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.”

“Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.”

“Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.”

“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face.”

“The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.”

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“One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”

“There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.”

“Two things you should never do in a hurry: make up and revenge.”