The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Discord gives a relish to concord.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

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.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.