Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.