Every advantage has its tax

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

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

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.