A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

A language is like living skin itself.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.