No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance.

I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.