Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

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.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.