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

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

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 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.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

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

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

You can't unscramble an egg.