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.

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

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

You can't unscramble an egg.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

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.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.