Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

A language is like living skin itself.