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.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.