Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

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.

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

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.