Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

... 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

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.