Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.