On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Mechanics of Mind: Remember the nature of the mind - Mind is never where you are, it is always somewhere else!

Who will present pleasure refrain shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.

He moves like a dancer.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an ideal world you would hold back.