Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.