Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Thesubconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does notdecide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to dowhat it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

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.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to