Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive

In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.

A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

My goal in life is to be your best friend when you open your closet

Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

Deeds and seeds, take their own time to fructify.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.