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.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.