Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
A precedent embalms a principle.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Be curious, not judgmental.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
