Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall 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.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.