A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Example is better than following it.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.