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.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.