What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

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.

A sophiological Christianity focuses on the path.

I asked my dad what people would remember sooner, the things I said or the things I did. His response was: Forgive me, but what people?

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.