In the study of the profession to which he had looked forward all his life he found irritation and vacuity as well as serene wisdom; he saw no one clear path to Truth but a thousand paths to a thousand truths far-off and doubtful. ~ Ch. 2

This...is the surer, safer, saner way of meditation. For, when the mind is absent from the body it is present with thy Lord, thy purposes, thy hopes.When asked: Why have I never been able to meditate? I go to sleep.

Edgar Cayce

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

Robert Farrar Capon

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

Philip Emeagwali

Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.

John Harrigan

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

Charles M. Schulz

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Hillary Clinton

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Gaston Bachelard

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.

Charles Caleb Colton

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Elvis Presley

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser