Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

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.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

You can't unscramble an egg.