If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience