Courage is exhilarating.
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.
Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.
An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.
Shut your mouth, close your lips, and say something!
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Your fingers caress my heart strings, shaping a silent sonnet in notes of love. Transcending space and time, bathing the ether in perfect harmony.
