We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom