The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

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.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.