We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

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.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di