Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

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

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

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.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Stability is not immobility