In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.