Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall 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.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.