All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
A person who spends more than he earns is a fool
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
