One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

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.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Nevercut what you can untie.