Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

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.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

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.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.