The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

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

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.