I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

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.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

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.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.