What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

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

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.