"But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate."

"Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want."

"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."

"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground."

"Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own."

"When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation."

"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us."

"Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers."

"A contented mind is a continual feast."

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."