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.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

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

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.