It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males.

Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.

It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.

Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

I've known a whole lot of bulls in my time, and their work is never done.

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.