Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

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.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

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.