“Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.”

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.

Let us be such as help the life of the future.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.

But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq. That’s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy ‘savages.’ There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.