... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

The board should set digital principles and guidelines for allowing the business to manage innovation in an effective way.

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.

You think it's going to be easy? Forget about it! Don't even try to be successful!

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.