Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

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.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

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.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.