Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

The meaning of life in western secular society is to be successful. So many people are success mad and they are encouraged to reach for something and have so called worthwhile goals. Money, fame, powe...

I’m with you in Rocklandwhere we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

It would be nice to think that the menacing aspects of North Korea were for display also, that the bombs and reactors were Potemkin showcases or bargaining chips. On the plane from Beijing I met a gro...

I think it's obvious if you're wanted here or not.Daemon, hissed Dee, her cheeks red. She turned to me, tears in her eyes. He's not being serious.Are you being serious, Daemon? Ash turned in his lap,...

He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face agai...

And even in the open air the stench of whiskey was appalling. To this fiendish poison, I am certain, the greater part of the squalor I saw is due. Many of these vermin were obviously not foreigners—I...

After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.

4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in favor of novelty & singularity of opinion... shake off all the fears & servile...

I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

If Moses had been a committee the Israelites would still be in Egypt.

I don't often agree with me either; there's much, in fact, with which I disagree. But that's probably because I'm so dashed ingenious that I haven't a clue what I'm saying.

There are no ordinary cats.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

Most people avoid thinking if they can, some of us are addicted to thinking, but Von Neumann actually enjoyed thinking, maybe even to the exclusion of everything else.

Our feelings are the wings of our intuition.

Shukladhyan (pure contemplation of the Self, the Soul) is the direct cause for moksha (liberation). Dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation; to hurt no one, give happiness to others) is the indirect cau...

Grace is a network, not hook-work. Your networking grace is what determines your networth in life which is the amount by which your assets will exceed your liabilities.