Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

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.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.