Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

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.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges