God has created the world in play.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

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.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.