There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

No strength within, no respect without.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.