Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

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

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

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

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.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.