Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

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.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

The first duty of love is to listen.

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

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.