There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
What goes up must come down.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
