Samuel Johnson

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions…

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb’s bleat.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity–to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with? When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.