Note that acceptance is different from approval. Acceptance is simply saying, “It is so.

The lesson I learned is that when you give someone authority, you must be conscious you are doing so and continue to ask yourself whether it is in your best interests.

Those who speak most of health, have it. Those who speak most of wealth, have it. Those who speak most of joy, have it. The opposite also holds true. So which would you rather have?

It may seem like the dragons tormenting you are bigger and fiercer than those lurking in your neighbor’s yard, but this is an illusion. We all face mighty dragons at home in some form.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

Interesting form of murder we come up with: Assassination. We assassinate people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Apparently we are not ready to live together.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.

We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.

Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.