As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.