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.

The property of power is to protect.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.