He understands badly who listens badly.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

God has created the world in play.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

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.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

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.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.