Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

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

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.