Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?