Leo Tolstoy

I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.

God is the same everywhere.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

If you want to be happy, be.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Life is neither old or new, ancient or modern, but simply more or less vivid-any song or musical composition will live that expresses or reproduces this vividness of life.-From this you will see that I believe that music fills a great place. The teaching of it goes far to restore the balance and richness of life, and-I might add- the unit of life also.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

No one can be helped unless he can be put in the way of helping himself.

I’m slipping. I’m made of departed dreams and a stubborn fog that feels nothing like a veil.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.