To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind