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.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

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

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.