The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

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.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags