If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.