The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

"Man wishes2fly like a bird,sing like cuckoo,dance like a peacock,swim like a fish,But Man dosnt wish2live like a man"

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

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.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.