Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

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

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

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.

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.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.