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

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

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.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.