A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.