In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.

...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes...

What comes, is called.

Victory over fear is one of the conditions of fulfilling the vision

Inner peace is a quiet evening moonlight walk in the soft falling snow of our minds

I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

Truth resides where there is faith.

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.