Words can confer strength; they can drain it off; Words can gain friends; they can turn them into enemies; words can elevate or lower the individual. One must learn the habit of making one’s words sweet, soft, and pleasant.
The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first.
The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.
Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
