Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.
There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
