These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.