We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.