Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

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 trust the advice of a man in difficulties.