Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded.... However, they are indispensable when you don?t want to do anything.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Different men seek after happiness indifferent ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
(The President) is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
The vain beauty cares most for the conquest which employed the whole artillery of her charms.
"Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Let the wind of the spirit blow between your shores. The great oaks in the forest do not grow in each other's shade.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief,Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
We tend to see our own experiences as the normal process, so we are often amazed that anyone could have taken a different path. But when we do meet up, it's always fascinating to compare notes about the different ways to get there.
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable...Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.
One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.