My mind is a peaceful poet to itself.

Be a goal-setter, a go-getter, all the while, moving,  in humility and kindness.

Rejection makes you uglier, acceptance makes you, all the more, good-looking!

Focus on no enemies, liberate armies of truth— give berth to your worldview.

All blame is a poor stance, if you perchance upon it.

We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.

There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.

It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities.