True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

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.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.