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

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

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.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.