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.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.