Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.