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.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.