Sweet is pleasure after pain

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

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.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?