The first duty of love is to listen.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

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.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.