To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

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

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 king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

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

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.