The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

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.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

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

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.