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.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.