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.

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

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.