“If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.”

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

I have seen only you, I have admired only you, I desire only You

Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.

Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.

George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.