Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.