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.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

It is a good reader that makes a good book.