To play a wrong note is insignificant

If there is true ‘Selfishness, ’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).

When you love yourself, then you are at peace. Wants or needs cannot destroy it

... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.

Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.