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.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.