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.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

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.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it