Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.

When the dead betray the living, the victims are memories.--The Book of Brin

It always seems impossible until it's done.

You can tease it's mane all you like, but you can't turn a house cat into a lion.

We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it.

If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. Theyre very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.