Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
When I feel like dancing, I dance. I don’t care if anyone else is dancing or if everyone else is laughing at me. I dance.
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.
A man is related to all nature.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
