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.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.