You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

A splendid sacred season!

Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will actually make us smart.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I said. “I sharpen it every evening on your name.

Do you think it's possible to change something in humanity, not risking? If someone tries to change something and is not risking, it probably means he's not changing anything.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

If you live by the same values and priorities [Jesus] had, you will find evangelism happening naturally. It becomes a life-style and not a project.