Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

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

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

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.

The property of power is to protect.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.