Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

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 who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous