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.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.